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    I. Various shots of motor launches. Main sequence shows a Vosper 72 ft 6-inch motor torpedo boat exercising off Weymouth - she passes the mast of a sunken vessel and a moored Flower Class corvette.

    II. Pan across Malta convoys, including (?) ...

     
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    Unedited rushes.

     
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    MALTA 1942

    Unedited rushes.

     
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    Unedited rushes.

     
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    Unedited rushes filmed in Lagos, Takoradi and Kano (West African Convoy Route).

    Airport- troops emplaning-mail/ General De Gaulle Scenes.

     
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    ADVANCE 1942

    Unedited rushes. Filmed in Tobruk, the Western Desert and West Africa.

    Includes Wellington material in Tobruk and Hurricanes in West Africa.

     
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    Unedited rushes. Air convoys in Takoradi and Ikeja, Lagos. Unloading Hurricane crates.

     
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    Aircraft are prepared for operations in support of the Dieppe Raid.

    Firstly shots of Bostons are shot in good air to air views. Close ups are taken of the shoulder flashes of crews from various countries, namely ...

     
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    A Wellington Mk XIV, possibly of 458 Squadron, RAAF, is seen at dispersal. The crew walk to their aircraft and climb aboard. This is also seen in close up. Submarine 'kill' markings are seen close up on the nose next as is the bomb aimer and front ...

     
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    START 00:00:34 Views of an Arab village in the Hebron district of Palestine consisting of dwellings built from local stone. Villagers (almost exclusively male) in traditional Arab clothing. Camels in use as beasts of burden, donkeys grazing in the ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    AYY 181/1. 1 Jan. 1942. Royal Artillery outside Agedabia, Libya, preparing guns and gun positions. Furthest point south reached by the British army.

    AYY 181/2. 3 Jan. 1942. Scots Guards in trench ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    AYY 187/1. 30 Jan. 1942. Visit of Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Gustavus Testa and First Secretary Monsignor Charles Perico to captured German Catholic clergy and German and Italian prisoners at Helwan ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    AYY 190/1. 19 January 1942. Officers of the 76th Anti-tank regiment, 1st Armoured Division discussing operations, north of Wadi Faragh. Armoured car at an observation post overlooking "Rommel's Ridge". ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Ski training at Les Cedares, Lebanon. Skiing troops. Indian Mule Corps and their bagpipe band on the march and in mountain passes.

    Notes

    Query les Cedares (Les Cdres ?)

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    A Physical Training course at St Andrews Barracks, Malta, during a lull in enemy activity. Boxing and basketball. Instruction in unarmed combat.

    Repairing motorcycles at the RAOC workshops. Men ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Repairing motorcycles at the RAOC workshops. Men working a circular saw in carpenters shop.

    British and Maltese children take lessons together at the school at St Andrews Barracks with English and ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Soldiers and sailors convalescing from bomb wounds at the Convalescent Depot at St Georges in Malta. Playing quoits, gardening, bathing in St George's Bay.

    Two platoons of the 2nd Battalion Queen's ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Free boxing fair and fun fair at St Elmo, Lower Valletta, run by the army for the services and also open to civilians. Bomb damage visible in the hall, the largest hall in Europe. Soldiers and civilians ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    First official public function attended by Governor Lord Gort and Malta's first wartime investiture, held at Castille Square, Valletta. Fifty awards made to men (and one woman) of all three services and ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    HMS Welshman brings supplies to Malta, the ship is unloaded of oil, chilled meat and ammunition.

    Malta Home Guard on parade, inspected by Brigadier Beckett, CRA at St Peter's Square, Hamrun. Four ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    The work of a Victory Kitchen, a government relief scheme. Vegetables and fruit are brought to Pitkali market by farmers then bought in bulk by a representative of the Communal Feeding Department. Carts ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    AYY 193/1. 24-25 Feb and 2-12 March. Men on non-urgent work take cover in rock shelters when public sirens are sounded but the remainder work on until the Red Flag is hoisted on the Palace Tower, Fort St ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    The Chief Censor Captain Stafford and Lieutenant Edwards censoring mail. Cutting a sentence out of a letter and stamping it with the censor's stamp. Two men writing letters in the courtyard of the ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Ships entering the Grand Harbour are the Rochester Castle, Melbourne Star and Port Chalmers. Cheering men from the Royal Malta Artillery watch. The damaged bows of the Brisbane Star. The destroyer G77 ( ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    The crew visit the 23rd Battery of the 11th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Malta Artillery at San Pietra. They look at one of the 4.5 inch guns and chat with the Maltese gunners. At Benghaisa they ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    The GOC Major General Scobie visits the Command Fair to see a boxing match in aid of the Malta Convoy Fund. He leaves the fair accompanied by Brigadier de la Bere and Major Crossless.

    Football ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Demonstrations by assault party with bayonets and hand grenades at Ghajn Tuffieha Bay, Malta. Bren gun bullets hitting the water.

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Rehearsed and actual ceremony of the presentation of the George Cross by Lord Gort at a parade in the presence of local and military VIPs in Palace Square.

    The Guard of ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Workers at Senglea waterfront, repairing the Brisbane Star. Bomb-damaged bastion of Cospicus. Workers looking at the Cross, which is guarded by the Dockyard Police and Royal Marines at Hammerton Wharf ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    The George Cross exhibited at Zebbug.

    A Spitfire. Barrage of HAA in the sky. Parachute coming down. Ju 88s dipping to bomb Luqa. Two submarines at Manoel: the submarines' smoke screen. A Ju 88 on ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    RAF protection for two convoys. Spitfires and Beaufighters take off. Unloading from ships SS Troilus and SS Orari. A smoke screen covers Grand Harbour and the dockyard during Alerts. The army and Royal ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    26 Feb 1944. Recruits read the sign at the Recruiting Office then proceed to the office. They draw kit from the Quartermaster's stores. The Provost Sergeant hoists the Union Jack for reveille. Bugler ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Physical training exercises at Mena Camp, Egypt. Wrestling. Troops doing handsprings and back rolls. Sergeant Instructor J Robinson giving the command. Exercises on vaulting horse and weight putting. ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    26 Feb 1942. Wheat bags at Port Tewfik, Egypt. Labourers carrying bags.

    26 Feb 1942. Commander in Chief visiting No 8 Reinforcement Camp, Mena. Inspecting buildings and soldiers' tent. Also visits ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    AYY 198-5. 8 Mar. 1942. Teams of the 9th Battalion Indian Company and the Cyprus Regiment Company at Camp Polymedia line up on the playing field and the captains toss a coin. The Cypriot team have "C" on ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    AYY 199-1. 19 Mar. 1942. Firing of 2lb anti-tank guns at a practice shoot in Mena. Gun team in action, gun fired on and off the lorry.

    AYY 199-2-1. 7 Mar. 1942. General Auchinleck holds investiture ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    British prisoners of war travel from Italy to Cairo via Alexandria.

    The hospital ship Llandovery Castle enters Alexandria Docks. Medical officers board the ship. Wounded ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    8 Mar. 1942. First stage of General Auchinleck's journey from Cairo to Baghdad. He boards a plane at Heliopolis Aerodrome. The plane stops at Lydda (near Jaffa) to refuel. On arrival at Baghdad he is met ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Members of 606 Company the Cyprus Pioneer Corps (Alien Unit) in Famagusta.

    Palestinian troops rushing out of billets on an alarm being given. Fixing bayonets. Troops ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Cyprus Coastal Defence Battery practising Action Stations.

    Telephone orderly receiving message at observation post from Naval Command that an unidentified ship is in the ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    13 April 1942. British prisoners of war returned from Italy recording a broadcast to their families at the 15th Scottish Hospital, Egypt. Captain Peter Haddon is in charge. The dialogue is radioed direct ...

     
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    ANDIMESHK 1942

    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Scenes in Andimeshk, Iran. US Dodge lorries handed over by US personnel to Soviet personnel, who drive them away.

    Notes

    Remarks: no dope sheet in file.

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    HRH emplanes at Heliopolis, Egypt, with his staff and arrives at Baghdad, Iraq. He inspects guard of honour. Shots of General Quinan (GOC 10th Army) and General Lane, AAQMG (Assistant Adjutant and ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Yorkshire Hussars in Kokkinotrimithia, Cyprus, training on new A10, A13 and Valentine tanks. Plane instruction course.

    Notes

    Dope sheet AYY 215/4.

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    April 1942. Turkish Military Mission in the grounds of General Auchinleck's home in Cairo. The members are General Sefik Cakmak, Chief of Air Staff; Lieutenant-Colonel Pahsin Yazici, Major Calal Alcoc, ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Poles picking up their kits as they leave Tehran. They clamber up into the lorry. Polish cadets training, "eyes right" into camera then "eyes front". Polish NCO shouting the drill orders. The lorries ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Ships chartered by the Red Cross to alleviate starvation in Greece. Flour arriving by lorry and being loaded onto Swedish Red Cross ship Halleren. Swedish flag on ship. The First Officer supervising ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    HRH inspects Polish civilians at the Polish camp at Tehran.

    HRH in a group with the British Minister.

    He takes the salute of the Persian army guard of honour and inspects the guard.

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